Hi everyone! Today I bring you the first major update to the game. Firstly I want to thank everyone who has played the game, the amount of plays really surprised me :) Let's go over the main features. You can find the full changelog in the bottom. I will think about posting devlogs more often in the future, or even smaller updates, if I have something concrete done. No promises though :D

Major Updates

The Map Painter was one of the first features I wanted to get done, as it would automatically make the game more replayable. It is very simple to use. There are some limitations that I have yet to tackle. Firstly, I couldn't yet figure out save management in webGL games, so your maps will only be saved during the current gaming session. Second, when developing the game, my game runs at around 300fps, so painting is very smooth, but because browser games are capped at 60fps, painting with really fast movements produces a disconnected line, as seen on the image above. You can easily mitigate this by painting a bit slower, but I will try to come up with a solution in the near future. If you can paint awesome maps, I'd be happy to see them :D

As you know, when a nation annexes another, their capital is destroyed and a city spawn somewhere in the attacker nation, which gradually increases Revolt Chance. This was a problem because large nations would be in a constant loop of fighting rebels they had already defeated, because killing rebels was no different to killing independent nations.

This has now changed, with the addition of CORES.  If a rebel nation spawns, and their former master manages to destroy them, that nation now gets a cores where the rebel nation capital was (so not in a random location). These cores do not contribute to rising revolt chance, and cannot spawn rebels. They are also more easily defendable. This way if a nation manages to defeat rebels on a steady pace, they will make themselves permanently stronger.

Also, if another nation conquers a nation's core, it will be transferred to a normal city, but if it's rightful owner manages to get it back, it will be automatically reverted to a core. I initially planned for cores to permanently increase combat efficiency, but it proved to be too OP. If I implement ideologies or tech, those will be ways to improve it.

You can now have an effect on the world by using the new God Mode actions, from the nation view. Nations will still act autonomously, but you can force them to attack a neighbour or spawn a revolt in one of their cities. Attacking works by clicking the attack button and selecting a target on the map. If the nation has a border with you, war will start.

This feature is not intended to be a "playable mode", though you can try :D This is more for trying to nudge things in some direction, and an easy way to continue if a nation manages to conquer the world. Just remember that the nation has full control over itself and can still start wars without you, and once you start a war, you don't have a say in how long the war will last.

Text popups have been improved by giving them color coded names, which you can click to focus on said nation.

When a nation is selected, its active revolts will now have a red highlight to easily spot them.

Stats pages have been made more compact, and a Min-tab added, to check smallest or youngest nations.

Changelog v1.01

Major features

• Added Custom Map Painter. Up to 5 maps of various sizes can be created. (Note: Maps don't get saved to memory at this point)
• Added Cores, which appear if a nation defeats one of their revolts. Instead of the revolt's capital getting destroyed and a random city spawning, the revolt's capital is converted into a core. Cores do not increase revolt chance and cannot spawn revolts.
• Added God Mode actions, allowing you to command a nation to attack or manually spawn a revolt.

Maps

• Replaced Two Frontiers Map with Istanbul Area Map
• Added more traversable sea around Indonesia to make Australia less OP.
• Added sea crossing between Fire Nation and Southern Air Temple
• Other minor edits to premade maps

Gameplay & User Interface

• Added option to disable revolts in session setup.
• Added better tips to menu and game setup screens.
• When focused on a nation, their surviving revolts will now have a red highlight on map.
• Adjusted stats screen and added Min-tab for both size and age.
• Text popups now have color coded names that can be clicked to focus on said nation.
• Improved zoom limits. Game now zooms out to show whole map on session load.
• Fixed nation view to show proper nation age
• Other UI- and bugfixes

AI

• Nations will now focus more on destroying their revolts.
• Nations will no longer start more than 2 wars. They can still be attacked, but they themselves won't commit die by going to 5 wars at once.

If you have any comments or find any bugs in the game, please let me know!